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Weed, Clakence M. — The Chinch-Bug Scourge. (Prairie Farmer, 

 Aug. 25, 188S, V. 60, p. 54.3.) 



Geueral article urging cooperation by farmers for the destruc- 

 tion of the chinch bug. 



Farmers' KEVIE^Y, Aug. 29, 1888, v. 19, p. 546. 



Editors report that a "second crop" of cliinch bugs has appeared 

 in the vicinity of Metropolis, Massac county, 111., and corn is 

 being injured by them. It is recommended that after corn is 

 gathered cattle be at once turned into the stalks, and, later, that 

 the remnant be burned. 



Farmers' Eeview, Aug. 29, 1838, v. 19, p. 554. 



A correspondent from Grant Co., Kan., reports corn much 

 damaged by drouth and chinch bugs. Recommends that no wheat 

 be raised for a few years. 



Monthly Weather Review of the Illinois State Weather 

 Service for Aug., 1888., Weekly Weather Crop-Bulletin, p. 7. 



Aug. 4. Corn has been seriously damaged in some sections by 

 the chinch bug. 



Gillette, C. P. — A few Important Chinch-Bug Remedies. (Bull. 

 Iowa Agric. Coll. Experiment Station, No. 2, p. 25. Ex- 

 tracts in Prairie Farmer, Oct. 20, 1888.) 



Climatic conditions in Iowa this year have been unfavorable to 

 the chinch bugs, and they have not occurred in injurious num- 

 bers except over limited areas. We cannot, however, predict the 

 weather with any certainty, and systematic measures against the 

 pest should be taken. Plowing bugs under to a depth of at 

 least six inches is an effective remedy, and may be resorted to in 

 early summer wherever bugs are first found injurious, usually 

 along the borders of fields or on high sandy spots. When small 

 grain is harvested, stubble should be carefully examined, and if 

 bugs are present in considerable numbers it should be plowed at 

 once. Instances are given illustrating the effectiveness of this 

 treatment. If in spring it seems likely that work will be too 

 pressing to admit of much plowing immediately after harvest, fields 

 of grain should be surrounded with strips of millet, on which the 

 bugs will accumulate when migrating from the grain, a furrow or 

 two being plowed outside the strip and thrown into the field to 

 keep the bugs from passing. When all the bugs seem to have 

 left the stubble the millet may be cut, —saved if worth it, — and 

 the strip plowed, dragged, and thoroughly rolled as quickly as 

 possible. Plowing in fall is effective wherever bugs are numer- 

 ous; and previous scattering of straw, cornstalks, manure, and the 

 like, tends to secure an accumulation of the insects. In order to 

 gain the most from plowing, the surface of the soil must all be 

 thrown to the bottom of the furrow, which can be done most 

 effectually by the use of a jointer on the \)\ow. Burning is 

 sometimes preferable to plowing, if it can, by any device, be 



